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Was shopping for a laundry machine for my parents and LG, I shit you not, has an AI laundry machine now. I just can't even
The reassuring thing is that AI actually makes sense in a washing machine. Generative AI doesn't, but that's not what they use. AI includes learning models of different sorts. Rolling the drum a few times to get a feel for weight, and using a light sensor to check water clarity after the first time water is added lets it go "that's a decent amount of not super dirty clothes, so I need to add more water, a little less soap, and a longer spin cycle".
They're definitely jumping on the marketing train, but problems like that do fall under AI.
No, problems like "how dirty is this water" do not fall under AI. It's a pretty simple variable of the type software has been dealing with since forever.
Wouldn't you know, AI has also been algorithmically based and around since the 1950s?
AI as a field isn't just neural networks and GPUs invented in the last decade. It includes a lot of stuff we now consider pretty commonplace.
Using some simple variables to measure a few continuous values to make decisions about soap quantity, water to dispense, and the number of rinse cycles is pretty much a text book example of classical AI. Environmental perception and changing actions to maximize the quality of its task outcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect